The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-25

accompanies him in his walks abroad; bat he
promenades every pleasant afternoon two or
lnree nours In tnat part o. Broad way % mnlSn -
crowded by women, never betaking himself to
quiet streets. The other actor, who greeted
him as they met wss Lester Wallack. a physical
wreck. and yet beauty still. de had more
than thirty years OF the experience which the
younger man is now enjoying, for ne was New
Yorks theatrical idol during that length OF
tnres We're quite as great, and so, when he lost
his acting ability through rheumatism and his
theater through rivalry, he was left in what, TO
him. seemed absolute poverty He declined a
benefit last winter, but has now decided to ac-
cept one and the big guns Of the profession are
loading themselves for boom that will ell his
wallet for year OF So
The girl that deserves to be called the wicked
est girl in New York was in the Tombs yester-
day, but only visit; and it happened that a
fashionable committee of charitable ladies en-
countered her there. She was admitted as the
sister of desperate who has several times at
tempted to kill women, and who must have
beaten and robbed them times innumerable.
She not his sister. she afterward said,
but an admirer. While she was in the gloomy
prison, she walked over to gentleman who was
with the swell philanthropists, aud asked for
cigars for the rufian Money was given to her
and she expressed profound gratitude IN these
remarkable words:
eyer don't look like much, mister, but If yer
u !
You're dandy an no mistake.
She was pink, white and wholesome-looking
as the averee healthy working-girl. and but for
her eyes, which were cold steel and wore a
calculating, hard expression. she would have
been very good-looking. Her dress quiet
and modest, but very shabby. She appeared to
be about twenty years old.
~ could pay yer back" she said, recurring to
the gift of money and under cross examination,
.but would have ter steal der mum. So 1
'spose you'd ruther let owe yer. Oh, steal
of course l do. I'm reg'lar rat. I never done
anything straight in me life. In the shantes
where belong, the girls are a sick lot you bet
yer life. But wasn't cut out for girl. | al
ways went with the boys, and call meself as
good a boy any OF em. I'm little better in
some ways, fer my hands is smaller and all the
better fer opening them iron gates they has un-
der stoops in the swell houses. It takes a small
hand to open them gates-and that's where l
come in.n
devoid of principle, modesty, or even common
prudence. She was proud of claiming to be
more like a man than Miss Bezie Garrity. the
sixth ward girl who was killed by one or the
murderers now under sentence of death in the
Tombs. Bezie could let any pound her ia
the face without weakening-by which she
meant crying-but she asserted that this was
nothing to her ompshments for she could
stand MP in a regular fight with bare knucKles
against any man of her weight, and take what
ever punishment came without murmur. She
could dance any jig step done on the stage, could
run, and swim, and lump with any man, and
when she wore male attire no one had eve- sus-
pected her
81 gave the police fine laying out one day
said she. 81 lived among the shanties beyon'
avenue A, below the Harlem line, and me and
some of the gang was chased there one night.
slipped into the wrong yard and over the fence
into nv own. That give me just the time L
needed While the cops was in the wrong
yard, slipped on an old muslin wrapper, and
waited for en-. When they come to my door. |
told me mudder to let EN- in, and they said they
wanted to search the shantY. Ono Of them
wouldn't go away till he went over everything
twice He says to me, 'You know where that
feler is, but you're too smart fOc us-thats ALL
and so | was, just twice too smart for him, for
he thought of searching to If
hadn't got the man concealed about meself, like
swallerln' stolen ring. Moses! how l did
tongue-lash them officers, though, fer daring to
come in an honest gals room, and suspecting
decent folks. Oh, myi it would have split your
sides to hear me-"
She gave the dainty ladies a shocking pict-
ure of her home surroundings. Her parents
were honest, but her father had never earned
her respect, or the right to govern her. because
OF ms drunkenness. while her mother was de-
scribed spiritless TO do anything TO better
the family condition. '.NIe farder used to put
airs wild me- she said, ''but L licked der nom
sense out of him before I was fifteen years Old"
Her brothers were in prison. professional GRIM
inals apparently, and it rested on her to supply
the household with nearly all the money that
ever came to it. She had never tried to
her living honestly, and she frankly admitted
that q regular life "too dull" for her. A
Toombs official said of her that she represented
the most desperate and worthless type OF crim-
mails in the town, aud that there hundreds
81 like her; women without a trace of woman
hood, without ALLEGIANCE family. church
their He said that the male criminals fear
these unsexed desperadoes they fear nothing
else In the world, because there is way of at
tachine them to their interests, of insurng
themselves against their treachery wherever
treachery will pay better than loyalty. 1t is such
women that referred to, he said, in the news
accounts of the shooting and beating of women
by ruffians They so little like the rest of
their that who would be ashamed 70
raise his hand against the ordinary woman,
treats these tigresses he would a
CLARA BELLE.